So, now that you have seen The Beast...
It stitches really beautifully! Sounds very gentle for such a hulky thing.
The mechanics, switches, etc are so heavy-duty-industrial-machinery-like. Nothing sleek, smooth, or dainty about it! Yet it sounds ssooooo quiet and behaves so tamely. The stitch width lever, the feed-dog-drop, the needle-position lever... it is all -so- hulky.
A question; I cannot for the life of me figure how I can disengage the bobbin winder from the large wheel during sewing. It must be possible - it seems so bizarre to me that it would be engineered with this one inefficiency. Has anyone had a machine where the bobbin winder was always in contact with the wheel? What could I be doing wrong?
-C.